{"product_id":"the-flag-the-cross-and-the-station-wagon-a-graying-american-looks-back-at-his-suburban-boyhood-and-wonders-what-the-hell-happened-paperback","title":"The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon: A Graying American Looks Back at His Suburban Boyhood and Wonders What the Hell Happened - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBill McKibben\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Books of 2022\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill McKibben--award-winning author, activist, educator--is fiercely curious. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike so many of us, McKibben grew up believing--knowing--that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. He sang \"Kumbaya\" at church. And with the remarkable rise of suburbia, he assumed that all Americans would share in the wealth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut fifty years later, he finds himself in an increasingly doubtful nation strained by bleak racial and economic inequality, on a planet whose future is in peril. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd he is curious: What the hell happened? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this revelatory \u003ci\u003ecri de coeur\u003c\/i\u003e, McKibben digs deep into our history (and his own well-meaning but not all-seeing past) and into the latest scholarship on race and inequality in America, on the rise of the religious right, and on our environmental crisis to explain how we got to this point. He finds that he is not without hope. And he wonders if any of that trinity of his youth--\u003ci\u003eThe Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon\u003c\/i\u003e--could, or should, be reclaimed in the fight for a fairer future.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBill McKibben\u003c\/b\u003e is a founder of the environmental organization 350.org and was among the first to have warned of the dangers of global warming. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including the bestsellers \u003ci\u003eThe End of Nature\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEaarth\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDeep Economy\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and the winner of the Gandhi Prize, the Thomas Merton Prize, and the Right Livelihood Prize. He lives in Vermont with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.67 x 7.99 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51978510500141,"sku":"9781250871435","price":20.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/QW9Sa0FManhMU3BSRWFzRHJHMXc4QT09.webp?v=1775805555","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-flag-the-cross-and-the-station-wagon-a-graying-american-looks-back-at-his-suburban-boyhood-and-wonders-what-the-hell-happened-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}